Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

Never get involved with someone who wants to change you